Mao Zedong, pictured here in 1963, was an avid reader of classical literature A collection of handwritten notes by Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China, has been sold at auction for 10 times ...

This week, however, his choice of name became the focal point of an online conspiracy theory that the app was named after a compilation of Chairman Mao Zedong’s quotations, which some translate ...

Li Cunxin was born in an impoverished Chinese village in 1961, the height of Mao Zedong’s turbulent rule. Eleven years later, in a twist of fate that would alter the course of Li’s life, a delegation ...